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FACE OF WOMAN IN BABY SNATCH BID; Parents' plea for help after couple tried to take girl.


Byline: By BEN ROSSINGTON Crime Reporter

THIS is the face of the woman who tried to abduct a Mersey-side baby.

Two bogus social workers tried to con a Con A

concancavalin A.
 Wirral woman into letting them see her one-year-old daughter.

Now she has helped police put together this efit of one of the callers.

Emma Mitchell was putting one-year-old Lacey Williams to bed when a man and woman knocked at the door of her home.

They said they were from social services social services
Noun, pl

welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs

social services nplservicios mpl sociales 
 and had a warrant to take away her baby after allegations of abuse.

The ECHO reported last month how Miss Mitchell was at home in Well Lan, Rock Ferry, on Sunday April 29 at around 6.45pm, when, a man and woman called claiming to be from social services and demanding to see Lacey.

When Miss Mitchell phoned her friend to see what she should do, the couple, who had been left standing on the doorstep, left, possibly in a dark blue Rover-type car.

Miss Mitchell, 25, a part-time cleaner, said: "I was sick afterwards because it HELP PLEA: Lacey's parents was so horrible.

"At the time I was just angry because I thought they really were from social services and didn't know why they had come.

"But it's the most frightening thing that's ever happened to me." Her partner, and Lacey's father, Lee Williams For the football player of the same name see Lee Williams (football player).

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, was not at home at the time but said he had since asked for security at his daughter's nursery to be stepped up.

The woman is white, aged 30 to 25, about 5ft 2in, slim, with dark hair tied back. She wore a cream sleeveless jumper and dark trousers.

The man is also white, 40-45 years old, around 5ft lOin loin (loin) the part of the back between the thorax and pelvis.

loin
n.
The part of the body on either side of the spinal column between the ribs and the pelvis.
, of slight build with a balding head and dark hair at the sides.

He wore a grey suit that appeared too big.

Anyone who recognises the woman in the efit, who may know the identity of the offenders, or has information which could help the police, can contact Crimestoppers on 0800555111.

ben.rossington @liverpool.com

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Publication:Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Date:May 12, 2007
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